LETTER: CONNIE SCHULTZ TWISTS ISSUE

Published 12:00 am, Tuesday, May 29, 2012

In her op-ed Friday, "Catholic leaders must dial down the rhetoric," Connie Schultz does a passable job of totally reframing what the issue is.

If the government's mitigating religious freedom is in fact a "women's health issue," then everything must be a women's health issue. I wish our vaunted government would try a similar ploy with the Muslims.

After changing the entire hinge point of the disagreement, which is a basic debate tactic, she then wishes the rhetoric to be more subdued. In other words, the government must control the issue to be discussed and the way it may be discussed.

The imperious arrogance of liberal incumbents is amazing. In this case, the government supersedes any individual's right to particular beliefs in God's will, because the government is the more proximate god that we all must revere.

The fact that one's beliefs are never totally consistent with one's behavior, which is the whole point of freedom, has only secondary standing. Thus, there is only one righteous side of an issue, the side that liberal incumbents occupy for the moment. Hopefully, that moment will be ended in November.